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== Record Content ==

== Record Content ==

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Record Description

The collection consists of land records for Itasca County, including grantee and grantor indexes from 1872-1930, located at the Itasca County Recorders Office in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. This collection is being published as images become available.

For a list of records by document type and dates currently published in this collection, select the Browse link from the collection landing page.

Record Content

Land Record

Information found in Land Records may include the following:

Names of interested parties

Date of transaction

Legal description of the property

Monies exchanged

Details of the transaction

Names of witnesses

How to Use the Record

To begin your search it is helpful to know the following:

Names of interested parties

Approximate date of the transaction

Location of the property

Search the Collection

To search the collection you will need to follow this series of links:⇒Select the Browse link in the initial search page⇒Select the County category⇒Select the Record Type, Date Range and Volume category which takes you to the images

Look at the images one by one comparing the information with what you already know about your ancestors to determine if the image relates to them. You may need to look at several images and compare the information about the individuals listed in those images to your ancestors to make this determination. Keep in mind:

There may be more than one person in the records with the same name.

You may not be sure of your own ancestor’s name.

Your ancestor may have used different names or variations of their name throughout their life.

Using the Information

When you have located your ancestor’s record, carefully evaluate each piece of information given. Make a photocopy of the deed, or extract the genealogical information needed. These pieces of information may give you new biographical details that can lead you to other records about your ancestors. Add this new information to your records of each family. For example:

Use the residence and names of the parents to locate church and census records.

Tips to Keep in Mind

Search for the land transactions of a couple and their children. The parents may have sold or given property to a son or daughter. Such transactions confirm relationships that might not be found in other records.

Search for records of people in the county who shared a surname. These may have been the couple’s parents, uncles, or other relatives. Your ancestor may have been an heir who sold inherited land that had belonged to parents or grandparents.

To find later generations, search the land records a few years before and after a person’s death. Your ancestor may have sold or given land to his or her heirs before death, or the heirs may have sold the land after the individual died. For daughters, the names of their husbands are often provided. For sons, the given names of their wives may be included. Heirs may have sold their interest in the land to another heir even though the record may not indicate this. Continue this process for identifying each succeeding generation.

When looking for a person who had a common name, look at all the entries for the name before deciding which is correct.

Keep in mind:

Some counties were subdivided or the boundaries may have changed. Consider searching neighboring counties as well since that courthouse may have been more convenient for the person.

One deed does not usually give sufficient information about a couple and their children. A careful study of all deeds for the person or the family will yield a richer return of information.

For each parcel of land owned, you should obtain two documents:

The deed that documents when ownership transferred to the individual or the family and

The deed that documents when ownership was transferred to someone else.

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Citation for This Collection

The following citation refers to the original source of the information published in FamilySearch.org Historical Record collections. Sources include the author, custodian, publisher and archive for the original records.